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Lee Kuan Yew obituary

 

6bc4d2ee-5d8c-4d25-b946-db76391ad009-620x372The founding prime minister of an independent Singapore, he sought to encourage prosperity through ensuring a dominant role for the state

Lee Kuan Yew at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2001. He saw in the economic success of east Asia the triumph of ‘Confucian values’: discipline, order, Continue reading